What God Told Me About Prayer

Lately, it seems that praying has been difficult for me. Although I prayed, I felt discouraged when I did. I felt like my prayers were just words that didn’t even make it past the ceiling of my room. I was feeling spiritually weak and sometimes wondered “What was the use?”

This morning as I was laying in bed feeling half sleep and half woke I found myself praying to God concerning my blog. I was asking God to anoint me to write for him. I was asking him to help me to yield to his Holy Spirit so that he would place within me the words to write.

However, the more I woke up, the more discouraging thoughts started to come to my mind. “This blog will never grow” “I don’t have time to learn all of this stuff about blogging.” “Why is God blessing other bloggers and not blessing me.” These negative thoughts were starting to drown out the prayer that was at first coming from deep within me.

Then the killer thought “WHAT’S THE USE” came and I stopped praying.

As I laid in bed, in my spirit, I so clearly heard the words “EVERY PRAYER IS A SEED”

God was letting me know that the effectual fervent prayer is just like a seed that is planted in heavenly soil.

Our faith in God is like the water, fertilizer and the sun (The POWER) working together, which causes the dormant spiritual seed to germinate (develop, take root, grow, spring up, arise, emerge, evolve, mature, enlarge) and break through the earthly sphere into its manifested state.

Just like the person who plant physical seeds into the ground have to wait for the life cycle of the seed to take place before manifestation, we too have to wait on the life cycle of the spiritual seed to take place.

As long as we are giving our spiritual seed what it needs, which is our patience and faith in the power of God to do his work in it, the seed (our Prayers) will manifest itself in due time.

I don’t know much about farming but I do know that they do work long and hard. Even when things look discouraging they continue doing what they need to do to bring forth the harvest they are desiring.

This is what God was showing me. He was letting me know that I can’t just pray and when I don’t see what I want to see, get discouraged. I have to keep praying, believing and standing on God’s word.

It is God who will do the final work and he will do it in his perfect timing. But it is my responsibility to stand in faith even when I don’t see the manifestation. It’s my responsibility to cast down doubt, fear, and all negative thoughts.

When seeds are planted in the ground we do not see the works that are going on inside the seeds but we know that something is taking place. We have to have this confidence in God. We may not see it but we have to know that there is something taking place in the spiritual realm concerning our prayer and in due time we will see the work of God bringing the answer to our prayer into perfection.

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10 COMMENTS

Denise Davis
| 15th May 19

I needed this today! Thank you for sharing your experience. The analogy of the seed and the farming process is spot on. Practicing patience in the waiting is not easy, but always worth it!

Denise Davis
| 6th May 19

It truly is worth it! Be blesses!

Hester
| 5th May 19

Hi Denis..thank you…just what i need this morning…it feels if my pray life is like burned down corn field…one thing i know is that the evil one never stop attacking our pray life…you encouraged me to stop looking at the out side of you pray life..because on the inside God is working miracles for us

Denise Davis
| 5th May 19

Amen, I’m glad you were encouraged. Continue to hold on to God, especially during the rough seasons of your life. God is faithful to bring you out and to restore anything the enemy has taken from you!

Rebecca Jones
| 29th Apr 19

Not only prayers Denise, but words. Prayers are growing if we don’t always see them.

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Hi! I am Denise

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